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OTTAWA Ė Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore will try to make the case next week that "dirty energy" is contributing to what he calls "dirty weather" events around the world.

"Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come," Gore wrote in a recent opinion piece in the Huffington Post. "We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather."

Gore will deliver his message on Nov. 15 through a new presentation in New York as part of his Climate Reality Project, to be broadcast on the Internet. The initiative was launched last year as a 24-hour event with slide-show presentations from around the world, highlighting the latest news about human influence on global warming.

Maggie Fox, the CEO of the project, said that although scientists cannot link global warming to specific storms, there is evidence warmer temperatures and oceans make storm systems stronger, leading to devastating impacts such as those caused by Sandy in the United States and Canada.

"Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come," Gore wrote in a recent opinion piece in the Huffington Post. "We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather."

Yes Al, just like the time you said the US was going to constantly get hit by storms like Charley many times each year. Moron.

And when that didn't happen, did the Lib press ask you why??? Well of course not, it's AlGore.

I'm still not sure what was so bad about Sandy. She was a cat 1 hurricane, had it hit anywhere else people would have shrugged and gone on with their lives.

We had 1 major hurricane this season, less then half the annual average.

Sandy itself was a pretty nothing storm, it's where it hit and the public being unprepared. I remember way back when I was a little kid the adults saying the Jersey Shore was going to get really whacked one day. It took decades but it finally happened.

The public isn't used to storms like that hitting up north. My sister and her friends had no idea a storm was coming and they mostly ignored it. Till the power went out...

Storms and damage like that are only supposed to happen down here in the south. People and local governments got forgetful and there was always some other "program" to spend money on instead of keeping the power lines clear. People love tree lined streets but if there are power lines in them...

St. Thomas in the USVI had that happen to them enough times and they finally put all their power lines (or most) underground.

Over building is also a cause.

Look at the NYC subways and tunnels. That flooding could all have been prevented but it takes vision and $$$. You know damn well that spending big bucks up in the NorthEast for something that MIGHT happen every 100 years would have been met with a big, fat, NO. People would have laughed the politician that suggested it out of office.

I'm still not sure what was so bad about Sandy. She was a cat 1 hurricane, had it hit anywhere else people would have shrugged and gone on with their lives.

We had 1 major hurricane this season, less then half the annual average.

Confirmation bias.

Chris Hayes is thoroughly irritated at anyone who doesn't buy GW hook, line, and sinker. He proudly proclaimed weeks ago, "I have seen the preparations that New York City is making to pump the water out of the subway tunnels do to sea level rise." So a storm comes along, and salt water gets into the subway, and Chris Hayes is convinced that everything he believes and promotes is correct. Confirmation bias.

The sea level rise is minor, statistically insignificant, and completely consistent with a long term history of variation. But to those who BELIEVE!, it's proof. Kind of like folks who claim that every disaster natural or manmade, which happens close to another disaster is a sign of the end times and proof of the prophecy. That is why I call it , Global Warming Theology.